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<p>The Open Plan Office. A little bit of you might die inside every time you hear those words. But we promise you the history of how they came to be is worth hearing.</p><br><p>Born at the same time as the counter cultural revolution of the 60s, Open Plan was supposed to create the offices that the egalitarian, free-thinking children of that revolution would want to work in.</p><br><p>The Open Plan Office was supposed to do away with stultifying hierarchies of post-war offices (think Mad Men). To give workers the flexibility to be their best selves and to allow the free flow of ideas.</p><br><p>Oh how the best laid plans of mice and men go oft awry!</p><br><p>Here to tell the story is Jennifer Kaufmann Buhler, a design historian and author of the book <em>Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office</em>.</p><br><p>Produced by Freddy Chick, edited by Joseph Knight, senior producer is Charlotte Long</p>
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